2021 October 14. Cardus - (web video): "Unheard Voices: Discussing Canada's National Daycare System"Cardus' Unheard Voices series brings more voices in. This panel discussion on the Canada-wide childcare policy features Karen Renkema of the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, Julie…
Category: All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC
Government Attacks Parental Consent for Kids’ Health Care: “Mature Minors” & BC Infants Act
2021 June. Kids First - (youtube video): "BC Government Campaign Attacks Parental Consent for Kids' Health Care: "Mature Minors" & BC Infants Act" Parents' legal obligation and right to determine their children's health care is under attack across Canada. The…
Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward
2021 April. Kids First - (Youtube video): "Federal Budget 2021 Child Care Funding: Kids First President Helen Ward". Child care is the care of a child, whoever does it. Child care is socially essential work, whoever does it. But the…
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Separating Children From Parents Has Been a Strategy of Canadian Politicians Since Before Confederation
2021 June. National Post - (web news article): "The Canadians who thought Residential Schools were a good idea"For KF archive copy of news article see here Note: Edgerton Ryerson was the 'father' of not only the Residential School system but…
Long-Standing Daycare Lobbyist Error Corrected
May 5, 2021 - Kids First submitted this correction (PDF) to two different articles in the Toronto Star regarding incorrect statements that: 1. Leading daycare lobbyist, Martha Friendly's lobby group, the Childcare Resource and Reference Unity, is at the University…
Fund The Child, Not System Spaces
Daycare Lobby Power Grab History: Toronto Star Daycare Reporter Describes How Canada’s Daycare Lobby Legacy Feminists Got Power by Getting in Bed With the Business Elite Neo-lib/Cons, “The Boys”, “The Suits” at RBC, the World Bank and the OCED
2005. Laurie Monsabraaten. Toronto Star - (news article): "The 'Tiny Tot' brigade; The daycare lobby believed it might actually for the first time in 30 years taste victory a publicly funded, national child-care program. But defeat seems to be making…
2021 Federal Budget: $30 Billion More Over 6 yrs For Non-Parental Institutional Child Care – Government Attack On the Right of Children, Women, Parents
The top priority in the April 2021 federal budget was more institutional child care and coercing all mothers into full time jobs. On top of additional massive funding, $30 billion more over 6 years was offered including a much expanded…
WSJ – “A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing”
1998 (posted 2021 March). Andrew Peyton Thomas. Wall Street Journal - (article): "A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing". PDF excerpt copy for reference Edward Zigler, co-founder of US Head Start program, called daycare centres "PSYCHOLOGICAL THALIDOMIDE"The research cited in this…
Policy Shorts & Sound Bites For Child Care and Family
March 2021. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - (PDF doc): "Policy Shorts & Sound Bites For Child Care and Family" Polict Shorts & Sounds Bites For CHild Care and FamilyMarch 2021Note: ELCC = early learning and child care ENDING…
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